Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton

The Right Honourable The Lord Dainton Kt FRS FRSE
Dainton, 1990s
Member of the House of Lords
In office 1986–1997

Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton, Kt, FRS,^[1] FRSE (11 November 1914 – 5 December 1997) was a British academic chemist and university administrator.

A graduate of Oxford and Cambridge, he was successively Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Leeds, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry at Oxford and Chancellor of the University of Sheffield.